Growing food in your backyard when it’s over 100 degrees for more than three months? How do you do that?
If you are looking for something more than the usual “mulch and drip irrigation” answer, this video can help.
Find out what the old-timers used to do, what plants will work the best, what not to do (if you can avoid it), and some surprise options you’ve probably have never heard of.
Marjory Wildcraft is the founder of The Grow Network, which is a community of people focused on modern self-sufficient living. She has been featured by National Geographic as an expert in off-grid living, she hosted the Mother Earth News Online Homesteading Summit, and she is listed in Who’s Who in America for having inspired hundreds of thousands of backyard gardens. Marjory was the focus of an article that won Reuter’s Food Sustainability Media Award, and she recently authored The Grow System: The Essential Guide to Modern Self-Sufficient Living—From Growing Food to Making Medicine.
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I am new to Florida with its intense heat and sandy “soil.” I took a break from the heat and wanted to look up plants / seeds that will sprout and thrive. Wonderful to find this video. I”ll be on the hunt for seeds /tubers. Thank you. snrthnkr
Day Lillie’s are also good food crops and almost impossible to kill. All parts are eatable.
Some other hot weather crops: Malabar Spinach, Yard Long Beans, Jerusalem Artichoke (AKA Sunchoke), Ginger